Your Windows PC has a backup tool that's secretly useful - here's what it can do ...

Despite your best effort, accidents happen, losing a MacBook or seeing your Mac simply die for no reason. You can take the sting out of any mishap if you have a backup. Much like flossing, backing up ...

If your computer crashes, your data may be recoverable, or it may not. The same applies if you get a virus. Some viruses are a mere annoyance, while others destroy or lock all your files. So just in ...

One of our favorite online backup services, iDrive, has added a new feature: unlimited cloud-to-cloud backup from Microsoft 365 Personal accounts. This might feel somewhat familiar: iDrive offered a ...

The $49.99 Essentials 1-year subscription includes backup and restore to a local drive, external USB drive, shared folder, or NAS device for a single computer. If you also want cloud backup, Office365 ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

iDrive is trying something a little different in cloud backups: Backing up your entire Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 storage, for only $20 per year per computer. Confused? Then let’s, er, back up.

Backup maintenance comprises two key elements: to ensure the technical integrity of backup files and to ensure that the right data is backed up at the right time. Organisations sometimes fall into the ...

Sigh. There I was, confronted with yet another computer suffering a catastrophic meltdown. All of the owner’s important files were on the computer, and there were no backup copies. There were ...